Archives - 22 March 2011, Tuesday

The iPad 2 features an entirely new design that is 33 per cent thinner and up to 15 per cent lighter than the original iPad, while maintaining the same 9.7-inch LED-backlit LCD screen. -- PHOTO: AFP APPLE announced late on Tuesday night (Singapore time) that all models of iPad 2 will ...

Friday, sung by 13-year-old Rebecca Black (above), was uploaded to YouTube last month by Ark Music Factory, a Los Angeles-based company that was hired by the girl's parents to produce the song for their daughter. --PHOTO: INTERNET WASHINGTON - A SONG by a California teenager that has ...

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A magistrate's court heard that an auxiliary policeman was patrolling near Beach Road when he heard sounds coming from the nearby bushes inside Harmony Hub. -- PHOTO : ST FILE A THAI couple who had sex in a public park on Sunday evening were each fined $1,000 on Tuesday. Ngernthaisong...

OSAKA - A SERIES of strong earthquakes rattled north-east Japan on Tuesday, keeping residents on edge more than a week after a devastating tremor and tsunami battered the region. Two 6.6-magnitude tremors and one 6.4 quake struck within two and a half hours off Japan's tsunami-stricke...

Pre-screening of food samples for radioactivity. -- PHOTO: HEALTH SCIENCES AUTHORITY'S APPLIED SCIENCES GROUP THE likelihood of any radioactive plume reaching Singapore remains very low, the National Environment Agency (NEA) announced on Tuesday. Radiation levels, which have been moni...

Beijing has taken to banning all outdoor advertisements for luxury products. This drastic measure was conceived in the hope that it would ease both China's widening income gap and a growing popular groundswell of resentment. In a statement released by the Beijing Administration for In...

Gadget lovers here won't have to wait long for Apple's latest iPad - it is slated to be available here next month. Apple announced that the iPad 2 would be available in Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore in April. The iPad is already on sale in the United States and will be available in a...

Teru Suzuki, 86, holds a picture of her son Kazuo who died in a tsunami in 1960 as she tells her story at her home which was destroyed by the recent tsunami in Ofunato. -- PHOTO: REUTERS OFUNATO (Japan) - TERU Suzuki, 86, says only 'destiny' kept her alive after last week's magnitude ...

The Twitter logo is displayed at the entrance of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. The messaging service marked its fifth birthday on Monday. -- PHOTO: AFP SAN FRANCISCO - TWITTER marked its fifth birthday on Monday with a promotional video of celebrities talking up the world-cha...

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RIM announced plans to launch the long-awaited device, with a seven-inch screen, in 2010. The tablet will be able to stream a high-definition video to a television screen via a HDMI cable, while allowing users to run other applications at the same time. -- REUTERS

At Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), some vendors have asked for permission to raise food prices by about 10 cents. The school will grant this on a case-by-case basis, said the school's estate manager Wong Meng Kong. -- ST PHOTO: SAMUEL HE

Singapore Airlines (SIA) will halt two of its four flights between Changi Airport and Tokyo's Haneda Airport from this Sunday. --ST PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN SINGAPORE - SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) said on Tuesday it will suspend half of its daily flights between Singapore and Tokyo as ...

Albirex Niigata footballers receiving donations from the club's young fans on behalf of the Singapore Red Cross. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI CASH donations from Singapore to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have topped $5 million, and donations are still coming in, sa...

Couple fined for having sex in public. (Yahoo! file photo) By Fann Sim Two Thai workers were fined S$1,000 each for having sex in a public park on Sunday evening. The couple, construction worker, Ngernthaisong Phichet, 36, and his girlfriend, Phloetphrao Somphan, 35, who is here on a ...

A South Carolina man who twice pleaded guilty to having sex with a horse has been released from prison after 16 months and ordered to stay away from the stable where the animal lives. Probation officials said on Monday that Rodell Vereen, 51, was let out of prison on March 1. He must ...

SINGAPORE - Liverpool Football Club's legion of fans in Singapore will have to travel to Kuala Lumpur if they want to catch their favourites in action, when the club visit Malaysia for a pre-season tour ahead of the 2011-12 Barclays Premier League campaign. Sources close to the club h...

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Dallas Wiens talks on his cell phone while on his way to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in this undated handout photo. -- PHOTO: REUTERS BOSTON (Massachusetts) - A YOUNG man horrifically injured by an electric shock while working in a cherry picker has successfu...

Miss Ku Kairong, 25, from NTU's school of art, design and media, got a job as an art director with advertising agency TBWA before she graduated last May and will soon be joining another agency. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN WITH the economic recovery, the Class of 2010 from the three loc...

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SINGAPORE: SingHealth and Singapore General Hospital have launched a new mobile phone application to help patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis better monitor their condition. Singapore's first smartphone health diary application for rheumatoid arthritis aims to empower patient...

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In July 17, 2010 photo provided the Anderson family, Taylor Anderson (right) poses with one of her students in Ishinomaki, Japan, where she taught English. Anderson's family said in a statement that the US Embassy in Japan on Monday, March 21, 2011 informed them by telephone of the di...

NEW YORK - Coca-Cola has dropped out of the top 10 brands in the world for the first time as consumers opt for healthier drinks and new technology companies enjoy an increase in their brand values. In the annual analysis of the top 500 global names by the consultancy Brand Finance, Co...

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SINGAPORE: A fourth Filipino was sentenced to jail on Tuesday for being part of a scam to cheat Standard Chartered bank. Thirty-two-year-old Hazel Thea Puyaoan Vicente, who used to be a direct sales agent with telemarketing company, Touch & Tech, will be imprisoned for two years and t...

Account Coordinator, Technology/Media - Singapore This position is based in Singapore The area: Advertising Sales At Google, we organize and change around our users and customers. Google's Advertising Sales team embodies that pursuit: We're devoted to finding relevant solutions that m...

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WASHINGTON: Apple said Tuesday that the iPad 2, the latest model of the hot-selling tablet computer, will go on sale in Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea in April. The iPad 2 hit stores in the United States on March 11 and will be available in 25 other countries on Friday. The iPad...

A district court heard on Tuesday that the 57-year-old (above) sole proprietor of Kao Hong Contractor, who had both kidneys removed in 1999 and is suffering from end-stage renal failure, may not be able to survive imprisonment. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW THE offence of bribing a poli...